Authors and Contributors this page: Graham Watson, T.F. Mills
Page created 1 November 2002. Corrected and updated 30.10.2005
1824-1881
1881-1948
United Kingdom  
Note:This is a battalion history of the Regular Army. See the main regimental page for full lineage and other information.
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  1824.03.25 97th Regiment of Foot
raised at Winchester
  1824 England
  1825 Ceylon
  1836 Ireland
  1837 England
  1839 Ireland
  1840 England
  1841 Ionian Islands: Corfu
  1847 Malta
  1848 Nova Scotia: Halifax
  1853 England
  1854 Greece
  1855 Crimea
  1856 England
  1857 India
  1857 Sepoy rebellion
  1858 India
  1867 England
  1871 Ireland
  1873 West Indies: Jamaica
  1875 Bermuda
  1877 Nova Scotia: Halifax
  1880 Gibraltar
  1880 South Africa
  1881.07.01 1st Battalion, The Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
  1881 South Africa
  1882 Ireland: Curragh
  1885 England: Chatham
  1888 Portland
  1892 Ireland: Dublin
  1894 Enniskillen
  1896 Dublin
  1898 Egypt
  1900.04 South Africa
  1902 Ceylon
  1904 China: Hong Kong
  1906 Singapore
  1908 India: Peshawar
  1912 Multan
1915.01.30 at sea (embarked at Bombay)
  1915.02.06 Mesopotamia 12 Ind Inf Bde [two coys in 30 Ind Bde]
  1916.04.29 B Coy & D Coy (30 Ind Inf Bde) captured by the Turks at Kut al Amara
  1916.01 Mesopotamia 34 Bde, 15 Ind Inf Div
  1917.08 Mesopotamia 17 Ind Inf Div
  1919.03 India
  1919 UK
  1921.03 Germany: Upper Silesia Army of Occupation
  1921. 1st Battalion, The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment
  1921.04 Ireland: Dublin
  1922.01 England: Woking 6 Bde
  1927 Guernsey
  1930 England: Aldershot 5 Bde
  1934 Shorncliffe
  1937 Palestine
  1939 Malta
  1943.06 North Africa 234 Bde
  1943.09.20 Aegean 234 Inf Bde
  1943.11.16 captured by the Germans at Leros
  1944.05.02 reconstituted in UK by redesignation of 7th Battalion
  1944.05 UK 61 Inf Div
  1945 Germany
  1947 UK
  1948.06.01 disbanded (technically "amalgamated" with 1st Battalion)